A Monster of Yesterday and Today Mary Shelley is an author of relatability. A goal of hers in her literary works is to make the reader feel at one with the characters and be able to relate with them. In Shelley’s Frankenstein, she used this tactic of relatability with Victor Frankenstein’s creature he built. The creature relates to real life humans in the sense that he wants to be loved and accepted, and when he doesn’t get what he desires he lashes out, even though he understands the behavior expected by society. Abandonment is a feeling no one deals with easily. Many children abandoned by their parents live a life full of sorrow knowing that they were not wanted and precede to question why not every day. The creature suffered this feeling, he was much like an orphan, one left to be on its own, perhaps even left for dead. Naturally the creature’s response to this action was extreme grief, anxiety, resentment, even self-consciousness. He wanted to be loved by his creator, much …show more content…
He is terrified to show himself to the family in the woods and hates the way he looks. Just like an adolescent female who does not like the way she looks and feels about herself which is overtaking society today, or even someone who knows they did something wrong and cannot stop thinking about the guilt, his image of himself is of a monster, but for the fact that he knows he acted out evilly and he knows he is ugly in more ways than one. He like a person, has the ability to feel regret, which is a reason he is so self-conscious, and another reason he is an antagonist, he knew better than to kill, unarguably he is wicked, like the relatable evil in today’s world, and he realized this, also another reason he felt the need for a female in the same creation as himself, “I am alone, and miserable; man will not associate me, but one as deformed and horrible as myself would not deny herself to me.”